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Pathogen Inactivation Technologies

Wednesday, 26 October 2011

Although there are highly sensitive methods for pathogen
detection in donor blood, the risk of infection via transfusion
remains. A customer seeks methods to inactivate all known
and unknown blood-borne pathogens in blood products,
especially where those technologies can be used for whole
blood or red blood cells. A pathogen agent should be able to
inactivate multiple infection-agent forms, and a proposed
solution must work on all three blood components: red blood
cells, plasma, and platelets.

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